Journal article
Human newborn bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccination and risk of tuberculosis disease: a case-control study
- Abstract:
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Background
An incomplete understanding of the immunological mechanisms underlying protection against tuberculosis (TB) hampers the development of new vaccines against TB. We aimed to define host correlates of prospective risk of TB disease following bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination.
Methods
In this study, 5,726 infants vaccinated with BCG at birth were enrolled. Host responses in blood collected at 10 weeks of age were compare...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Authors
Contributors
+ McShane, H
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Jenner Institute
Role:
Contributor
Funding
+ National Institute for Health Research
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Grant:
NF-SI-0514-10158
NF-SI-0509-10233
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 76
- Publication date:
- 2016-05-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-7015
- Pmid:
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27183822
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:708378
- UUID:
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uuid:ca024b02-1d1b-4e0b-a9d7-f935669fe3a7
- Local pid:
- pubs:708378
- Source identifiers:
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708378
- Deposit date:
- 2019-07-03
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Fletcher et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Fletcher et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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